Word: counterfeiter
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...best hope for avoiding the concentration camp. But it is hard for a high-spirited nine-year-old not to be noticed. For the sake of safety, he is packed off to live with the peasant parents of one of his family's friends, and becomes a counterfeit Catholic equipped with a Christianized name, the Lord's Prayer, and strict instructions not to let anyone see that he has been circumcised...
...palpable fear of approaching death, the play has been given a sleepy rather than springy staging by Director Ellis Rabb. Instead of displaying regal authority and a poignant awareness of death, Richard Easton as the king mopes, whines and stumbles about the stage in tattered melancholy, a sort of counterfeit Lear...
...flexible in the resolution of a contentious issue. It is a voluntary and peaceful proceeding. Therefore, negotiation cannot be entered into while the war is ongoing. Violence seeks surrender, not negotiation. To ask for negotiation while continuing the violence is a contradiction in terms; it is a counterfeit proposal...
Loyalists supplied the redcoats with food when George Washington's men were desperately hungry; they circulated counterfeit Continental currency to weaken the rebel economy, and they distributed handbills urging wavering patriots to switch to the British side. Some 50,000 actually took up arms and joined British regiments. In 1780, when Washington's troop roster numbered a mere 9,000, there were 8,000 Americans fighting in redcoat units...
...seized clothes as evidence. For under a 1921 Supreme Court decision (Gouled v. U.S.), federal police were allowed to seize only four kinds of evidence: the loot of a crime; the tools by which it was committed; the means of escape, such as weapons; and contraband, such as counterfeit money. All else was inadmissible as "mere evidence." In 1961, ruling on Mapp v. Ohio, the Supreme Court ordered state as well as federal courts to exclude evidence seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment...